The night of San Juan
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The San Juan Feast, which many also call the San Juan Eve or the San Juan Night is a holiday that is celebrated on June 23rd.
This San Juan night serves to celebrate the summer solstice, the entrance of this season of the year and to welcome the good sunny weather.
The Verbena of San Juan (Revilla of Sant Joan, in Catalan) is celebrated in all of Spain. This festival begins at night and ends in the late morning, giving way to the new day and leaving behind the shortest night of the year.
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This festival is not only celebrated in Spain, it is known around the world and in every country its celebrated in a different way. The other countries that also celebrate San Juan are: Portugal (Fogueiras de São João), Norway (Jonsok), Sweden (Midsommar), Estonia (Jaanipäev) and the United Kingdom (Midsummer).
In Barcelona in particular, the festival of San Juan is celebrated on June 23rd at night. As each party begins with a dinner in good company, family and friends get together and from there everything starts.
There is also a tradition related to this holiday where bonfires and fireworks are also part of this night, as they are there to welcome the summer, to illuminate the shortest night of the year.
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What’s better than spending the night with friends on the beach and enjoying a good outdoor atmosphere while watching the fireworks, and if you have the opportunity, dare to jump some of these bonfires on the beach. Tradition says that when you jump a bonfire, you have to make a wish and it will be granted.
On this very festive night, let yourself be carried away by its magic.
If you want to see how the San Juan is celebrated in Barcelona, get yourselves out on the street, and go to a beach in Barcelona. Just be prepared to go out as a group and find yourselves alone or with randoms as you spend the night looking for your group…. It gets very busy indeed.
If you are a big party-goer until dawn, the Barcelona cleaning team will ask you to leave to clean the beach.
Barcelona is definitely a city of night and day.
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